Diane Sieber, Ph.D.

Diane Sieber chairs the Faculty Council of the University of Colorado system-wide President’s Teaching Scholars. She also directs the Generative Futures Lab for AI in the CU Boulder College of Engineering, an innovation lab and play space for faculty, staff and students to explore and discover effective uses of AI for improved learning, teaching and research.  She is a tenured faculty member in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics and Society at CU Boulder.   

Dr. Sieber’s research comprises two eras of technology-driven communication revolution: Renaissance Europe immediately post printing press, and the current networked digital age.  She has published on Don Quixote, Spanish Golden Age drama, poetry and historiography, and cartography in Colonial New Mexico, as well as on AI and Education: studies of learning through online social networks, gamification of the educational experience, higher education in the AI era, and digital distraction in classroom settings. Her ongoing projects include: "Morisca Voices: Appealing the Morisco Expulsion of 1609,"  "Ludus and Paideia: Renaissance Education, Games, and Mirrors of Princes,"  and a study and new academic course on "How Not to be Replaced by AI."

Dr. Sieber received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University.